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Brinkmanship Poems - Poems about Brinkmanship

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: brinkmanship, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

Ready Aim Fire

...Ready...Aim...Fire!

In light of tension twixt
brinkmanship rumbling one
East Asian Tiger
country otherwise known as
"the land of morning calm,"
yours truly t'will invite 
"freedom foo fighte...
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Categories: brinkmanship, america, anger, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme



Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles

...Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches 
global threat half cocked.

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttime...
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Categories: brinkmanship, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945

...Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleash...
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Categories: brinkmanship, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse

Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht

...Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countles...
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Categories: brinkmanship, abuse, angst, bullying, environment,
Form: Rhyme



Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age

...Though I wrote no book 
attention summoned to look 
at following--->>>

Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age

predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ...
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Categories: brinkmanship, abuse, america, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945

...Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945

Once again, I take momentary pause
to contemplate horrific event
regarding unleashing atomic warfare
activating nuclear brinkmanship,
hence...
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Categories: brinkmanship, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Electorate Witnesses Wounded Beast

...Electorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony

Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet bru...
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Categories: brinkmanship, absence, autumn, class, evil,
Form: Political Verse

Early Mid Afternoon May 22nd 2020

...Early/mid afternoon May 22nd, 2020...

Raindrops percolate Perkiomen Valley watershed
pleasant reprieve versus quite warm temperatures
yesterday found yours truly averse attempting re:
ding outs...
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Categories: brinkmanship, 12th grade, future, health,
Form: Political Verse

Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age

...Impossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.

Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent...
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Categories: brinkmanship, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse

Uneasy Mantra of Brinkmanship

...Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces 
(INF) Treaty nixed, asper (gasp) infinite
wisdom (quite unsettling) trumpeting  
commander in chief de facto gave green

light, thus signals fasttrack, sans ar...
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Categories: brinkmanship, 12th grade, blue, crush,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberA Scholar Romance

...Finding acquaintance with women
has put me on a wild-goose chase,
making my mind so water-logged
with gross and unbearable lack of confidence.
Your presence has cancelled these memories
and caus...
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Categories: brinkmanship, graduate, love, romance, romantic,
Form: Romanticism

Gift, Lift and Shift of Love

...Lift the gift and shift of love no matter what
Disappointment and doubt swat
Give love a chance to dance
Get your life love to balance. 

Lift the gift and twist of love no matter how much pain
...
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Categories: brinkmanship, poems,
Form: Free verse

Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror

...blue war red hot political issues dont amount 
to a hill of beans 
   when Sword of Damocles  count
approaches zero hour 
   as global tensions mount

signaling increased chance 
   trigger fi...
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Categories: brinkmanship, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: I do not know?

Andy Lewis

...Andy wanted to be in the Parachute Regiment, 
But only three days before he started training, 
He was involved in a bad motorcycle accident, 
Which eventually lost his leg, problems taking.

Det...
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Categories: brinkmanship, body,
Form: Quatrain

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